Word: loner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's no thrill quite like signing up with an idea whose time has come -except, of course, the thrill of opposing it if you happen to be a loner. For her present foolhardiness, roughly comparable to throwing herself in front of a juggernaut with a Molotov cocktail, Midge Decter deserves to be named 1972's Daughter of the Anti-Zeitgeist...
...cannot escape politics, the play is always timely. It is particularly so in a national election year like this one; and again so at the end of a decade of violence wreaked upon major public figures from President Kennedy to Governor Wallace. With Caesar cut down not by a loner but by a handful within his own group, there is a striking recent parallel in the assassination of Malcolm...
...that is somehow fitting. A man with Anderson's kind of mission should be a loner vis-a-vis all sorts of authority. The church-and Pearson-are probably the only yokes he has willingly borne since he left home. He grew up in Salt Lake City, the son of a postal worker; his mother once drove a taxicab to subsidize young Jack's missionary travels for the church. At the age of twelve he was a newspaper employee, reporting on Boy Scout affairs, and in high school he was student-body president. Once he tried...
...goalie is a loner, and that's the way I am. Not only in the game, but socially too. Rather than celebrate with the crowd, I go to Elsie's and get some food," Bertagna said...
After interviewing more than 40 skyjackers, Dallas Psychiatrist David G. Hubbard produced a prototypical profile of an insecure, effeminate loner who has probably never seduced a woman. Heinrich VonGeorge, 45, the man who hijacked a Mohawk Airlines propjet last week, scarcely fits that pattern. His motive was not an escape compulsion or an aberrant drive for momentary fame. It was a simple, brutal act of financial desperation...